Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0226501663 ISBN 13: 9780226501666

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2003

Riassunto

Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives.

From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raï, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of gender identities; compare men's and women's roles in specific musical practices and their historical evolution; and explore how music and gender relate to such issues as ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Anyone studying the musics or cultures of the Mediterranean, or more generally the relations between gender and the arts, will welcome this book.

Contributors:
Caroline Bithell, Joaquina Labajo, Jane C. Sugarman, Carol Silverman, Goffredo Plastino, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Edwin Seroussi, Marie Virolle, Terry Brint Joseph, Deborah Kapchan, Karin van Nieuwkerk, Svanibor Pettan, Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman

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L'autore:

Tullia Magrini is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Bologna. She is the author or editor of nine books in Italian, most recentlyUniversi sonori: Introduzione all'etnomusicologia, and is founder and editor of the Web journalMusic & Anthropology.

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• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0226501663
• ISBN 13: 9780226501666
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 388
• Redattore: Magrini Tullia